Didn't see any mention before, but the Red Sox got off pretty light, eh?
21 thoughts on “April 24, 2020: Cheaters”
Just a reminder -- WGOM Digital Caucus on Sunday night 7:30 Central; link is on the FB page, or ask and I can send it to you. Waiting Room is enabled, so no nazi pr0n interlopers. Simultaneous nighttime yard raking optional.
Rhu, I've looked a couple times and am not seeing the link.
Not saying it isn't there, but the inordinate amount of time I spend there makes me feel FB-proficient.
Should there be a pinned post or event or something?
Or just send to me...
you might be checking the wrong WGOM page. there's a secret clubhouse one...
So secret, even I didn't know I was in it. My kind of club.
I can be there, but you'll have to listen to me read the thrilling conclusion of Mr. Popper's Penguins since the caucus falls right during the peperoncino's bedtime routine...
A dramatic reading would class things up!
I’m planning on being there.
I kind of like the theory that COVID was started by the Astros so their players don't get beaned this year.
It's pretty amazing, really. Baseball investigates this for months and months, and the only person to get punished is the replay operator. Apparently we're supposed to believe he did this all on his own, with no prompting by or even knowledge of any club officials. Rob Manfred must have a huge rug to be able to sweep this much stuff under it.
Assuming the documentary is reliable on this point, Screwball says volumes about Rob Manfred. He’s pretty bad news.
I also found the documentary interesting in its own right for how it dramatizes some of the exchanges between the principal figures.
I'm surprised the commissioner didn't pin it all on Jim McNally and John Jastremski
On the genealogy front: MyHeritage has released (for free) their searchable yearbook data. Found my mother (Grand Fork Central) and my father (Fertile-Beltrami school board), but the real gem was finding my grandfather's first wife. It wasn't until relatively recently I found out he'd been married to a girl for one year prior to her death from a kidney ailment. I knew she graduated in the 1920's from the same college I did (Moorhead Teachers College back then) but those documents burned many years ago. Turns out Ellen Sanstead was in the 1915 Alexandria Central HS yearbook.
The search is kinda clunky when it comes to filtering, but give it a try.
Talking to my Grandfather on Easter, I discovered that he had an older brother, born during Spanish Influenza, that died at a few weeks of age.
Grandpa RHR had recently found his brother's buried gravestone in the New Ulm Cemetery. This was the first I had heard of him, and Grandpa only barely knew of him.
Just a reminder -- WGOM Digital Caucus on Sunday night 7:30 Central; link is on the FB page, or ask and I can send it to you. Waiting Room is enabled, so no nazi pr0n interlopers. Simultaneous nighttime yard raking optional.
Rhu, I've looked a couple times and am not seeing the link.
Not saying it isn't there, but the inordinate amount of time I spend there makes me feel FB-proficient.
Should there be a pinned post or event or something?
Or just send to me...
you might be checking the wrong WGOM page. there's a secret clubhouse one...
So secret, even I didn't know I was in it. My kind of club.
Link is here (hopefully, if I did this right)
"wear pants"??
Pepper's coming?
I can leave you in the waiting room, you know
I can be there, but you'll have to listen to me read the thrilling conclusion of Mr. Popper's Penguins since the caucus falls right during the peperoncino's bedtime routine...
A dramatic reading would class things up!
I’m planning on being there.
I kind of like the theory that COVID was started by the Astros so their players don't get beaned this year.
It's pretty amazing, really. Baseball investigates this for months and months, and the only person to get punished is the replay operator. Apparently we're supposed to believe he did this all on his own, with no prompting by or even knowledge of any club officials. Rob Manfred must have a huge rug to be able to sweep this much stuff under it.
Assuming the documentary is reliable on this point, Screwball says volumes about Rob Manfred. He’s pretty bad news.
I also found the documentary interesting in its own right for how it dramatizes some of the exchanges between the principal figures.
I'm surprised the commissioner didn't pin it all on Jim McNally and John Jastremski
On the genealogy front: MyHeritage has released (for free) their searchable yearbook data. Found my mother (Grand Fork Central) and my father (Fertile-Beltrami school board), but the real gem was finding my grandfather's first wife. It wasn't until relatively recently I found out he'd been married to a girl for one year prior to her death from a kidney ailment. I knew she graduated in the 1920's from the same college I did (Moorhead Teachers College back then) but those documents burned many years ago. Turns out Ellen Sanstead was in the 1915 Alexandria Central HS yearbook.
The search is kinda clunky when it comes to filtering, but give it a try.
Talking to my Grandfather on Easter, I discovered that he had an older brother, born during Spanish Influenza, that died at a few weeks of age.
Grandpa RHR had recently found his brother's buried gravestone in the New Ulm Cemetery. This was the first I had heard of him, and Grandpa only barely knew of him.
haha, freaked my dad out. thanks.
Pretty cool since you've got time on your hands:
Long-Lost U.S. Military Satellite Found By Amateur Radio Operator
R. I. P. Steve Dalkowski, said by some to be the fastest pitcher ever, at age eighty.
Incredibly, this will be a month old tomorrow.
And yet evergreen.